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I’m talking about real love. Lasting love. Eating leftovers out of Tupperware because you both agree that it’s madness to dirty another dish love. Lounging in sweats on a Saturday and flicking through basic cable together love. Landing on a movie about Nicolas Cage stealing the Declaration of Independence and deciding to stick with it even though it’s 45 minutes in and you’ve both seen it 15 times but, whatever, it’s not like either of you want to watch Manchester by the Sea right now love. posted by rewil (16 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
The paragraph in that article where you explain plot of National Treasure to a "friend" who just starts laughing--that's happened to me uncountable times. Nobody in my life understands how great that movie is.
posted by lmindful at 2:12 PM on August 31, 2017 [5 favorites]


I think that the reason why I haven't gotten into the National Treasure movies is that Cage previously did Face/Off, and if you can buy into that movie's preposterous premise, then National Treasure doesn't seem that silly. I mean, maybe there is a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence, how would I know? And maybe there's someone who can steal it. There was that thing some years ago about the locks that were... well, not exactly unpickable, but unpickable within like ten or twenty minutes, and this guy who's not even a level 20 rogue, just a guy who likes to mess with locks, ends up picking them with a comfortable margin to spare. So, yeah.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:20 PM on August 31, 2017


riley is the real treasure
posted by poffin boffin at 2:24 PM on August 31, 2017 [9 favorites]


National Treasure is one of those films that are fun while you're watching them afterwhich you forget everything about them. I remember the scene in the gift shop and not much else. I don't think that I saw the second one but I can't really be sure.
posted by octothorpe at 2:27 PM on August 31, 2017


I like these movies. Cage is ok, but he's just Cage at his Cageyist. The other characters are very good though. If they made another sequel with Abigail and Riley who had struck out on their own - because they are the real treasure hunters and brains in the group - it'd be just fine with me. Harvey Keitel can come along because who doesn't like Harvey Keitel?

As much as I think they're fun movies for wasting some time, I disagree with the article that we should disregard the RT and IMDB ratings. A movie can be kind of crap and still enjoyable. These are those movies.
“I do know that those scripts are very difficult to write, because there has to be some credibility in terms of the facts and fact-checking, because it was relying on historical events."
Either I have a very poor understanding of US historical events or we have a different idea about credibility in terms of fact-checking.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 2:35 PM on August 31, 2017 [4 favorites]


National Treasure 3, in which Nic Cage searches frantically for the last vestiges of his lost dignity.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:48 PM on August 31, 2017 [3 favorites]


I love the first one. Haven't seen it fifteen times yet... but that day may come. The second was OK.

National Treasure is a treasure because it takes a completely ridiculous premise and sells it completely. It's like the movie equivalent of pretending like you belong somewhere you actually don't. Self-confidence is everything and this movie oozes self-confidence, exudes it, barfs it out, steps over the mess and moves boldly on.

No, it's not great. But it is a great deal of fun.
posted by lhauser at 2:48 PM on August 31, 2017 [6 favorites]


So first Cage and Keitel appear together in 'National Treasure', and then in the second coming of 'Bad Lieutenant' Cage takes the Keitel role... what happens next?!?
posted by mr. digits at 3:42 PM on August 31, 2017


I am unabashedly in love with all of these films because they are ridiculous and fun and fantastic (read: unbelievable, totally committed to alternative realities, breathtakingly paced). I support this message.
posted by whimsicalnymph at 3:56 PM on August 31, 2017 [1 favorite]


So first Cage and Keitel appear together in 'National Treasure', and then in the second coming of 'Bad Lieutenant' Cage takes the Keitel role... what happens next?!?

I'd watch Keitel try whatever that was that Cage was doing in a remake of Peggy Sue Got Married.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 4:36 PM on August 31, 2017 [1 favorite]


National Treaaure is best described as “if The Da Vinci Code were about American history, and also fun”
posted by DoctorFedora at 5:21 PM on August 31, 2017 [2 favorites]


My ex and I used to say "I just really thought I was gonna find the treasure" to each other in our best dejected-Nicolas-Cage voice whenever something went wrong.


I am all about these movies, and like to reference Philadelphia landmarks in terms of them. Independence Hall is "that building where Nicolas Cage finds Ben Franklin's 3-D spectacles behind a brick." The Reading Terminal Market is "you know that scene in National Treasure where Diane Kruger hides behind a butcher counter? It's in there!"
posted by coppermoss at 8:08 AM on September 1, 2017 [2 favorites]


I clearly need to watch National Treasure, which is something I never thought I'd say about a Nic Cage movie.
posted by asperity at 8:15 AM on September 1, 2017 [1 favorite]


I like the part where Betsy Ross tortures him with the bee cage and then sets him on fire. SPOILER ALERT: Betsy Ross is, of course, the National Treasure.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:56 AM on September 1, 2017


I clearly need to watch National Treasure, which is something I never thought I'd say about a Nic Cage movie.

Uh, Raising Arizona???
Leaving Las Vegas
Peggy Sue Got Married
8MM
Bringing Out The Dead
Adaptation.
Matchstick Men

I recommend all of these highly
posted by RustyBrooks at 9:09 AM on September 1, 2017 [1 favorite]


No love for 'The Sourcerers Apprentice' ?

For shame!
posted by Faintdreams at 4:02 AM on September 3, 2017


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